Example sentences of "[adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Woodbines ) ; a loaf of bread was 4 d. ; a pint of milk 1 d. , a bag of coal , 9 d. ; and for the rich few who had cars , petrol was 11 pence per gallon . |
| 2 | In an historic few days , Australian Rugby sanctions against South Africa were lifted , an invitation for the Wallabies to tour the Republic in August was issued and accepted and the heavyweight unions from Australia , New Zealand , South Africa and Argentina agreed to combine their collective muscle and form the Southern Hemisphere Rugby Alliance . |
| 3 | It 's been a very trying few days . |
| 4 | And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again . |
| 5 | The boys headed for the tea-table , not quite hurrying , with the two umpires strolling behind and a frigid few paces apart . |
| 6 | In the Howk , an eerie limestone gorge reached by a pleasant few minutes ' walk from the southern corner of the village green , is the threadbare ruin of a bobbin mill . |
| 7 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 8 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 9 | To be accepted as member there really would cap a memorable few years . |
| 10 | She bought some postcards , and an illustrated book on the bastides of the Dordogne from the local newsagent , and spent a mouth-watering few moments coveting the strawberry , peach and raspberry tarts displayed in a pâtisserie window . |
| 11 | There 's the odd few that do n't get on with the teachers . |
| 12 | These leads , rejected not without reason , proved almost impossible to crack , although the odd few good ones would always emerge like gold nuggets in the granite . |
| 13 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
| 14 | Even if memory is limited , with only the odd few 100 K's of free RAM spare , caching makes a big difference to the speed at which you can work . |
| 15 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 16 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
| 17 | The odd few pounds yes . |
| 18 | She blinked twice , taking the risk of missing the right few seconds while her eyes were shut . |
| 19 | And I I got right few bollockings . |
| 20 | You can find out before anyone else who it is that 's in trouble over rates or who 's in debt or who 's emigrating , so that you can get in first and grab their paltry few acres . |
| 21 | As of last week , all SCO engineers still assigned to the MIPS project — a paltry few by SCO 's own count — were redeployed to Intel development , now at least 150 strong , though SCO says it will attend the periodic meetings of ACE 's recently established executive board . |
| 22 | They spent an emotional few moments in his third-floor room . |
| 23 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 24 | It had sold a respectable few thousand — mostly to the literary and those who hoped to be part of that world . |
| 25 | Nearing the concluding few scenes , Mark Antony provides a remarkably relevant passage showing just how things are not as they first seem to be . |
| 26 | Still , the Carolingian Renaissance in the mid-ninth century touched far more than just a select clerical few . |
| 27 | The mindless few maybe , but what happens when these people have access to areas like Range West ? |
| 28 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 29 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 30 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |